Non-fiction




Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond *
Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos *
Last Dance by John Feinstein
The Devil on Trial: Witches, Anarchists, Atheists, Communists and Terrorists in America's Courtrooms by Phillip Marguiles and Maxine Rosaler

Mad Cow/Gnome Fiction
Fantasy

Mystery
Going Bovine by Libba Bray*
Graceling by Krsitin Cashore *
Epic by Conor Kostick
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin *

Sci-Fi

Horror:

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson *
Gone by Michael Grant
What Are You Afraid Of? Stories about Phobias edited by Donald R. Gallo
Soulless by Christopher Golden

Funny Realistic Fiction



Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan *
Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery by Susan Juby
Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
Flush by Carl Hiaasen *

Serious Realistic Fiction



Stoner and Spaz by Ron Koertege *
Nothing to Lose by Alex Flinn
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
If I Stay by Gayle Forman *
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Heavy Metal and You by Christopher Krovatin
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin *
Marcelo in the Real World Francisco X. Stork *
Hero-Type by Barry Lyga *
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein *
Guardian by Julius Lester


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Chew on This by Eric Schlosser
We Are the Weather Makers: A History of Climate Change by Sally M. Walker and Tim Flannery